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Boats & Boaters

This page is especially set up for boat enthusiasts and
owners and anyone with a general
interest in the canal boats.
If you want to bring your own boat
click the boaters link below for
details of the Saturday
evening BBQ
and booking-boat
entry is
FREE
boaters

The following boats are regulars at the Angel Canal
Festival
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Angel 2
Star of the show, operated by charity,
Angel Community Canal Boat Trust.
Full length residential and day
trips
catered for all year. The
boat has
a capacity of 12
passengers with
special
rates for community
groups. At
the show this boat
is used for
our VIP guests to take
a
break.
Bookings 020 7490 5125
www.angelboat.org
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Community
Narrowboat |

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Bantam tug
Bantam Tug is owned and maintained by charity, the London
Canal Museum. Such tugs would have
been used for pushing or towing
non
powered butty boats.
Jenny Wren will be operating trips to the museum, they
also have as stall selling
canalware and other things.
Enquires 020 7713 0836
www.canalmuseum.org.uk
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Historic
Tug |

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Beauchamp
A very unusal wide modern craft operated by charity,
Beauchamp Lodge settlement.
She is a special boat designed
specifically
to carry a class of
children (max
60 passengers). There are
many
onboard facillities centred
around
education and has full disabled
access and
plasma screen! The boat
is also
available for private hire
from
her base near Paddington.
Bookings 020 7266 8249
www.beauchamplodge.co.uk
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Communty
Electric
Widebeam |

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Helix (SPCC)
Operated by Alex and Jenny operated under the name of
London Canal Cruises. Alex and
Jenny provide special meal and day
trip (a
very personal
trip) on the
canal which is
idealy suited to small
groups of
2-4 persons, although
potentially
could carry up to 10
passengers.
At the show she will
be doing
various things like
sailing the
brass band up and down
in the
festival site.
Bookings 020 8440 8962
www.londoncanalcruises.com
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Private
Comercial
Narrowboat |

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Jenny Wren
Jenny Wren is a comercial boat operated by Walker's Quay
from Walker's Quay in Camden. She
has been running passenger trips
from
Camden to Little Venice since
1968
and can accomodate up to 72
passengers.
She is available as a
scheduled
trip or private
bookings. At the show
Jenny Wren
will be making
passenger trips
through Islington tunnel to the
London
Canal Museum.
Bookings 020 7485 4433
www.walkersquay.com
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Comercial
Narrowboat |

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Lady Mildmay
Operated by charity, Laburnum Boat Club, Hackney. This
boat is the only Regents Canal
based narrowboat especially
suitable
to wheelchair access. The
boat is
for day trips only of
up to 12
passengers. At the show
this boat
is used for public boat
rides around the
festival
site.
Bookings 020 7729 2915
www.laburnum.org
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Community
Narrowboat |

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Opportunity
Operated by charity, Laburnum Boat Club, Hackney.
The boat is for day trips
only of up to 12 passengers.
At the show
this boat is used for
public boat
rides around the
festival site.
Bookings 020 7729 2915
www.laburnum.org
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Community
Narrowboat |

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PIRATE PRINCE NEW
Operated by The Pirate Club,
Camden. She is a brand new
widebeam canal boat. She is fitted
out to
carry
disabled passengers on
residential
and day trips. At the show she
will be open for public
viewing.
Bookings 020 7267 6605
www.thepiratecastle.org
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Community
Narrowboat |
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Pirate Viscount
Operated by charity, The Pirate Club, she was used as a
business guest boat for several
years until 1995 she came to the
club and
renamed after the club
founder
Viscount St Davids. She is
full length and
can carry up to 12
passengers. She
is open plan
design and normally used
on day
trips only, although in
emergencies
matresses can be laid
down for
sleeping. At the show she
will be
open for public viewing.
It is well
worth visting both
Pirate boats
and Tarporley,
although similar dimensions
outwardly
all the boats are very
different
on the inside.
Bookings 020 7267 6605
www.thepiratecastle.org
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Community
Narrowboat |

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Tarporley
Tarporley is operated by charity, Camden Canals &
Narrowboat Assc. (CCNA). She is
the oldest community boat based on
the
Regents Canal. She was built
as a
'Northwich Large Town Class'
goods
carrying boat in 1937. In
1972
Camden Council had her
converted to carry
up to 12
passengers on residential
or day
trips. Ownership passed to
CCNA in
2001, she continues her
work run
entirely by volunteers.
During
the show there will be free
access
to look around her, a
raffle draw for a
free day trip
and volunteers
will be on
hand to answer questions or
even
recruit new volunteers. Also
selling
tickets for their special
halloween
event staged with other
boats from
the London Canal Museum.
Bookings 020 8776 9890
www.camdencanals.org
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Historic
Community
Narrowboat |


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PRIVATE BOATS
Private boats visiting during 2005 Festival
SPCC is St Pancras Cruising Club
7SEA (SPCC) Andanté (SPCC) Anne
Louise (SPCC) Babylon
(SPCC) Calico Caracola
(SPCC) Cornwall
(Stort Boat
Club) Daisy
(SPCC) Dunkley
of the Folly (Stort Boat
Club) Eclipse
(SPCC) Galatea
(SPCC) Gnashers II
(SPCC) Hawker
(Stort Boat
Club) Hel's Belles
(SPCC) Jay's
Nest (Stort Boat
Club) Justine
II (SPCC) Knot
Normal (Floating
boat
Carpenter) Leafy
Lady
(SPCC) Middlesex Moon
Shadow
(SPCC) Nuthatch
(SPCC) Old
Smoky
(SPCC) Peabody (Stort Boat
Club) Sutton
(SPCC) Rhino
(SPCC) Serena
(Stort Boat
Club) Tara
Rose (Stort Boat
Club) Venice
(West London Motor
Cruising
Club)

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..And Islington Boat Club


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